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Title: Understood Betsy
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heart melted in her at the smell. She 76 UNDERSTOOD BETSY loved chicken gravy on hot biscuits beyondanything in the world, but chickens are so ex-pensive when you buy them in the market thatAunt Harriet hadnt had them very often fordinner. And there was a plate of biscuits,golden brown, just coming out of the oven!She sat down very quickly, her mouth water-ing, and attacked with extreme haste the bigplateful of food which Cousin Ann passedher. At Aunt Harriets she had always beenaware that everybody watched her anxiously asshe ate, and she had heard so much about herlight appetite that she felt she must live up toher reputation, and had a very natural andhuman hesitation about eating all she wantedwhen there happened to be something sheliked very much. But nobody here knew thatshe only ate enough to keep a bird alive,and that her appetite was so capricious!Nor did anybody notice her while she stowedaway the chicken and gravy and hot biscuitsand currant jelly and baked potatoes and ap-
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. . : - \D \gL BETSY GOES TO SCHOOL 77 pie pie—when did Elizabeth Ann ever eat sucha meal before! She actually felt her belt growtight. In the middle of the meal Cousin Ann gotup to answer the telephone, which was in thenext room. The instant the door had closedbehind her Uncle Henry leaned forward,tapped Elizabeth Ann on the shoulder, andnodded toward the sofa. His eyes were twin-kling, and as for Aunt Abigail she began tolaugh silently, shaking all over, her napkin ather mouth to stifle the sound. Elizabeth Annturned wonderingly and saw the old dog cau-tiously and noiselessly letting himself downfrom the sofa, one ear cocked rigidly in thedirection of Cousin Anns voice in the nextroom. The old tyke! said Uncle Henry.He always sneaks up to the table to be fedif Ann goes out for a minute. Here, Betsy,youre nearest, give him this piece of skinfrom the chicken neck. The big dog paddedforward across the room, evidently in such astate of terror about Cousin Ann that 78 UNDERSTOOD BETSY

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